I'm having trouble getting cron to be usable by normal users. I'm running vixie-cron 4.1-r10 on Gentoo Linux. My user is a member of both cron and crontab groups (being unsure which I needed, but speculating the former). There is no cron.allow, and an empty cron.deny file in /etc.
Every time I try "crontab -e" as my user, I get this: Code: ~~~ no crontab for user - using an empty one crontab: installing new crontab chown: Operation not permitted crontab: edits left in /tmp/crontab.XXXXsXePXF ~~~ Naturally, I'm guessing permissions problems. Here are the permissions: ~~~ host2 spool # cd /var/spool host2 spool # ls -alR cron/ cron/: total 16 drwxr-x--- 4 root cron 4096 Mar 6 17:16 . drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Apr 13 16:02 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 6 17:16 .keep_sys-process_cronbase-0 drwx-wx--T 2 root crontab 4096 May 16 14:39 crontabs drwxr-x--- 2 root root 4096 Mar 6 17:16 lastrun cron/crontabs: total 12 drwx-wx--T 2 root crontab 4096 May 16 14:39 . drwxr-x--- 4 root cron 4096 Mar 6 17:16 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root crontab 0 Mar 6 17:16 .keep_sys-process_vixie-cron-0 -rw------- 1 root crontab 328 Apr 27 12:25 root cron/lastrun: total 8 drwxr-x--- 2 root root 4096 Mar 6 17:16 . drwxr-x--- 4 root cron 4096 Mar 6 17:16 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 6 17:16 .keep_sys-process_cronbase-0 host2 spool # ~~~ "crontab -e" does not error out when run as root. "crontab -u myuser -e", when run as root, does create a crontab, which appears to be owned by root, grouped by root, and with rw permissions for owner only. How can I fix this? Thanks. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
